Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Lex Fridman Podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 22 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 20 episodes
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
#3 Mentioned in 18 episodes
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
#4 Mentioned in 16 episodes
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
#5 Mentioned in 15 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#6 Mentioned in 12 episodes
Animal Farm
George Orwell
#7 Mentioned in 11 episodes
The Gulag Archipelago
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#8 Mentioned in 11 episodes
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#9 Mentioned in 10 episodes
The ascent of money
A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
#10 Mentioned in 9 episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Douglas Adams
#11 Mentioned in 9 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
#12 Mentioned in 8 episodes
The Brothers Karamazov
Larissa Volokhonsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear
#13 Mentioned in 8 episodes
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
#14 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Finnegans Wake
David Hayman
James Joyce
#15 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
#16 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Dear Reader
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
Michael Malice
#17 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
#18 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
#19 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
#20 Mentioned in 6 episodes
The bitcoin standard
Saifedean Ammous
